Sports
He’s 50 years and 3,000 miles removed from Long Island University’s national basketball title, but Harry Grant recalls the names and faces from the championship game of 1936 as though it happened yesterday.
July 11, 1986
Joe Chealey had 32 points and the College of Charleston rallied from 17 points down in the second half to win the Colonial Athletic Assn. tournament championship and earn its first NCAA tournament berth in 19 years with an 83-76 overtime win against Northeastern on Tuesday.
March 6, 2018
Charles Jones scored a school-record 53 points and Long Island beat Division III Medgar Evers, 179-62, at New York, breaking the NCAA record for margin of victory.
Nov. 27, 1997
A look at the NCAA tournament’s East Regional: THURSDAY :: PITTSBURGH 1 Villanova (30-4, Big East champion) vs. 16 Play-in winner (See matchup below) Enjoy high-scoring games?
March 12, 2018
World & Nation
Police in New York City announced Sunday the arrest of a fifth person in a melee that left an officer with a broken nose as fallout continued over the slayings of two officers by a gunman who had posted online rants against police.
Dec. 21, 2014
Company Town
In today’s Wide Shot from the Sundance Film Festival, we catch up with Pauly Shore about his Richard Simmons biopic and offer ideas for what to do here.
Jan. 20, 2024
For the second time in a week, police will gather this weekend to mourn one of their own, Officer Wenjian Liu, whose wake and funeral could show how much, if any, progress has been made toward mending relations between Mayor Bill de Blasio and police officers.
Jan. 2, 2015
Minutes before he gunned down two police officers, a man told two bystanders, “Watch what I’m going to do,” officials said Sunday as they pieced together the movements of a killer whose actions further roiled relations between the mayor and police unions and cast a shadow on a civilian-led protest movement alleging police brutality.
Police, firefighters, political leaders and regular New Yorkers stood in long lines in icy rain Saturday and will gather again Sunday to pay tribute to Officer Wenjian Liu, one of two policemen gunned down in an attack that widened a rift between police and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Jan. 3, 2015
New York City officials plan to name two streets after the two NYPD officers who were shot and killed in their patrol car earlier this month.
Dec. 31, 2014